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The Lost Promise of Civil Rights

The Lost Promise of Civil Rights

Risa Lauren Goluboff

Listen to a short interview with Risa GoluboffHost: Chris Gondek | Producer: Heron & Crane In this groundbreaking book, Risa L. Goluboff offers a provocative new account of the history of American civil rights law.
Vagrant Nation: Police Power, Constitutional Change, and the ...

Vagrant Nation: Police Power, Constitutional Change, and the ...

Professor of Law and History Risa Goluboff

As Goluboff links the human stories of those arrested to the great controversies of the time, she makes coherent an era that often seems chaotic.
Vagrant Nation: Police Power, Constitutional Change, and the ...

Vagrant Nation: Police Power, Constitutional Change, and the ...

Risa Goluboff

"People out of Place reshapes our understanding of the 1960s by telling a previously unknown story about often overlooked criminal laws prohibiting vagrancy.
The Supreme Court Review, 2014

The Supreme Court Review, 2014

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See Risa Lauren Goluboff, The Lost Promise of Civil Rights 142–52 (Harvard, 2007). 146Memorandum for Mr. Dean, Attorney General Papers, box 22, entry 132, folder Civil Liberties. On the origins and implications of this interpretation of  ...
Robert Clifton Weaver and the American City: The Life and ...

Robert Clifton Weaver and the American City: The Life and ...

Wendell E. Pritchett

Risa Lauren Goluboff, “Let Economic Equality Take Care of Itself: The NAACP, Labor Litigation, and the Makings of Civil Rights in the 1940s,” U.C.L.A. Law Review 52 (June 2005): 1393–1486; Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Maximum Feasible ...
For Jobs and Freedom: Race and Labor in America Since 1865

For Jobs and Freedom: Race and Labor in America Since 1865

Robert H. Zieger

Risa Lauren Goluboff, “'Let Economic Equality Take Care of Itself': The NAACP, Labor Litigation, and the Making of Civil Rights in the 19405,” UCLA Law Review 52, no. 5 (June 2005): 1393—1486, has helped me understand the reasons for ...
Vagrant Nation: Police Power, Constitutional Change, and the ...

Vagrant Nation: Police Power, Constitutional Change, and the ...

Risa Goluboff

... 2013); Joseph Kip Kosek, Acts of Conscience: Christian Nonviolence and Modern American Democracy (New York: Columbia University Press, 2011); Martin Halliwell, Therapeutic Revolutions: Medicine, Psychiatry, and American Culture, ...
The Taming of Free Speech

The Taming of Free Speech

Laura Weinrib

For an analysis of why the Civil Rights Section eventually abandoned reliance on Section 51, see Risa Lauren Goluboff, The Lost Promise of Civil Rights ( Cambridge, MA, 2007), 136–138. “Case of Mary Helen,” Time, May 30, 1938 (“ coal ...
The Best American History Essays 2007

The Best American History Essays 2007

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... and the African American Struggle for Human Rights, 1944–1955 (New York, 2003); Risa Lauren Goluboff, “The Work of Civil Rights in the 1940s: The Department of Justice, the NAACP, and African-American Agricultural Labor” ( PhD diss., ...
Dissenting Voices in American Society: The Role of Judges, ...

Dissenting Voices in American Society: The Role of Judges, ...

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... 1919– 1950 (New York: W. W. Norton, 2008); Carol Anderson, Eyes offthe Prize: The United Nations and the African American Struggle for Human Rights, 1944–1955 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003); Risa Lauren Goluboff, ...
Death Blow to Jim Crow: The National Negro Congress and the ...

Death Blow to Jim Crow: The National Negro Congress and the ...

Erik S. Gellman

See Risa Goluboff, “The Thirteenth Amendment and the Lost Origins Of Civil Rights,” Duke Law Journal 50, no. 6 (April 2001). 70 “Peonage Fight Received Support of NAACP and National Congress,” CD, nation edition, March 9, 1940; “ stop ...
Harvard Law Review: Volume 126, Number 8 - June 2013

Harvard Law Review: Volume 126, Number 8 - June 2013

Harvard Law Review

L. REV. 2312 (2013)] REPRESENTING THE RACE: THE CREATION OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS LAWYER. By Kenneth W. Mack. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 2012. Pp. 330. $35.00. Reviewed by Risa Goluboff * It is not always ...
Civil Rights and the Making of the Modern American State

Civil Rights and the Making of the Modern American State

Megan Ming Francis

71 Risa Goluboff, The Lost Promise of Civil Rights, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007. 72 Paul Frymer, Black and Blue: African Americans, the Labor Movement, and the Decline of the Democratic Party, Princeton: Princeton University ...
Civil rights litigation and attorney fees annual handbook

Civil rights litigation and attorney fees annual handbook

Steven Saltzman

CHAPTER 2 "Let Economic Equality Take Care of Itself": The NAACP, Labor Litigation, and the Making of Civil Rights in the 1940s* Risa Lauren Goluboff * During World War II, the lawyers of the NAACP considered the problem of ...
Harvard Law Review: Volume 129, Number 3 - January 2016:

Harvard Law Review: Volume 129, Number 3 - January 2016:

Harvard Law Review

For a discussion of how the “new constitutional history” has self-consciously taken up the influences of legal realism and critical legal studies and combined them with insights from social history and legal anthropology, see Risa Goluboff,  ...
Civil Rights in American Law, History, and Politics

Civil Rights in American Law, History, and Politics

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4. Martha Minow, “Same Sex Marriage and Brown v. Board of Education,” Balkinization, August 10, 2010. Retrieved from http://balkin.blogspot.com/2010/ 08/same-sex-marriage-and-brown-v-board-of.html. 5. See Risa Goluboff, “ Lawyers, Law, ...
Super Searchers Go to the Source: The Interviewing and ...

Super Searchers Go to the Source: The Interviewing and ...

Risa Sacks

The Interviewing and Hands-on Information Strategies of Top Primary Researchers--online, on the Phone, and in Person Risa Sacks Reva Basch. Super Searchers Go to the Source: The Interviewing and Hands-On Information Strategies of ...
Deadly Dreams

Deadly Dreams

Kylie Brant

Risa Chandler's prescient dreams of death and murder haunted her nights.
Tuberculosis and Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Infections,

Tuberculosis and Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Infections,

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Department of Medicine Dartmouth Medical School Lebanon,NH 03756 RichardJ . Wallace, Jr. Department ofMicrobiology Universityof TexasHealth Science Center Tyler,TX 75708 Risa M. Webb Department of Infectious Diseases ...
There Was A Fire: A Memoir

There Was A Fire: A Memoir

Risa Nye

Fire Season: A Memoir by Hollye Dexter. $16.95, 9781631529740. After she loses everything in a fire, Hollye Dexter's life spirals downward and she begins to unravel—but when she finds herself at the brink of losing her husband, she is ...
Principles of Antitrust Law

Principles of Antitrust Law

Stephen F. Ross

Accord, Mack Player, Elaine Shoben & Risa Lieberwitz, Employment Discrimination xxv (1990); Elaine Shoben & Wm. Murray Tabb, Remedies xxiii ( 1989). I am also grateful, for some key pinch-hitting, to Bonnie Anderson, Carol Haley, and ...

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